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edenx
Thu 9th Jun '05, 11:27am
We run a big community with Invision 1.3 (about 2gigs of space in messages and like 30.000 users)
I need to know how possible is to convert this to vBulletin.

I know the tool "impex" exists, but I think we need something from the command line

Please answer me because we want to change our forums to vB ASAP


Thanks a lot!:)

Jerry
Thu 9th Jun '05, 11:47am
We run a big community with Invision 1.3 (about 2gigs of space in messages and like 30.000 users)
I need to know how possible is to convert this to vBulletin.

How many posts ? I've seen 2 million ish post imports before.



I know the tool "impex" exists, but I think we need something from the command line

Please answer me because we want to change our forums to vB ASAP


Thanks a lot!:)

Well I've yet to see a board to break it, takes time sure, break no.

CLI is an ImpEx2 thing atm.

I could do a test import to ensure it would work. More importantly than impex, the PHP memory limit.

edenx
Thu 9th Jun '05, 12:31pm
Woha, thanks for the response
What do you mean by the php memoery limit? is this import done via browser? Can it be done via ssh?

Thanks a lot

Zachery
Thu 9th Jun '05, 6:52pm
Yes, php memory limit, yes by the browser, no it cannot be done via SSH (or the CLI) as of right now.

edenx
Thu 9th Jun '05, 11:15pm
Zachery:

How about php-time out when performing the conversion?

Zachery
Thu 9th Jun '05, 11:29pm
You could up it or disable it during the import if you are worried, 120~ should be good.